I’m assuming the Male White Rhino coming from Colchester will be Kifaru who was born in 2017 as his mother is currently expecting another calf late next month.
Port Lympne Wild Animal Park Port lympne news 2019
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I’m assuming the Male White Rhino coming from Colchester will be Kifaru who was born in 2017 as his mother is currently expecting another calf late next month.
I don’t follow.
It's a comment on how keen the Aspinall parks are to send animals back to their native regions eg. the many gorillas that have been sent to reserves in Gabon and Congo
Protecting Gorillas - Releasing Gorillas Into The Wild
I would think its more likely they are taking them because they have the room in empty elephant housing, or alternatively to later put them in the African reserve, perhaps instead of Black Rhino? Status in the wild nowadays makes it unlikely they will be the subject of any reintroduction scheme.
Not entirely. There would be scope for in situ in Uganda for SW rhino!
I found this video here and it's about Zuko the White Rhino arriving from Dublin Zoo
Hexaprotodon
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Nice to see the old elephant sand paddock and the cow house being used again. Personally I'd love to see them establish a breeding herd of White Rhino at Port Lympne making full use of the remaining elephant facilities.
I was lucky enough to be working there when they had Torgamba and Meranti. Such a shame that project did not come off. It looks increasingly likely that captive breeding might be the only hope for Sumatran Rhinos - which are now probably the most endangered large mammal in the world.
I was lucky enough to be working there when they had Torgamba and Meranti. Such a shame that project did not come off. It looks increasingly likely that captive breeding might be the only hope for Sumatran Rhinos - which are now probably the most endangered large mammal in the world.
Hexaprotodon
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Maybe, in spite of Aspinall Jnr's apparent hatred of zoos, they are going to become a specialist breeding centre for Rhinos - who knows??
I believe they turned down Indian Rhinos over a decade ago. What a shame.
Ive always found this type of statement intriguing. Surely it’s the Javan rhino that’s more critical, or is there data deficiency?
Hexaprotodon
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In the 2019 ‘State of the Rhino’ commissioned by the International Rhino Foundation it states fewer than 80 Sumatran Rhinos remain, and because it has declined more than 70 percent in the past 20 years, the species is likely the most endangered large mammal on Earth. Three small, isolated populations exist on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, plus a tiny handful of animals in Indonesian Borneo. Remaining populations are heavily guarded by anti-poaching units, but despite protection, numbers continue to decline.
Hexaprotodon
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In contrast the Javan Rhino has seen an increase in numbers. Now numbering around 70 animals, they are found only in Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon National Park, where they are heavily protected. There has been no poaching in Ujung Kulon in more than 25 years. Because of this, their population has been slowly but steadily increasing and IRF is working with local partners to create even more suitable habitat for them, so their population can continue to grow.
They did. I believe the failure with breeding the Sumatran rhinos- which was not of their making anyway-rather put them off Indians, though of course management of the two species is quite different with Indians being much easier. The animals they were offered were not zooborns but would have come from Nepal I think, possibly individuals that had been removed as being 'troublesome' in the national parks. I always thought the big flat field at the bottom of Port Lympne, where the water buffalo are/were, would have been very suitable as housing.
Have the water buffalo been removed? I think that would have made a more than suitable enclosure if they had a bit more shade.
I presume buffalo are still there, just said 'were' in case they aren't. You can always create some extra shade with man-made shelters etc.
littleRedPanda
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They are indeed still there.
A pack of seven African Wild Dogs(Hunting Dogs) all born at PL have been relocated to Africa(Gabon) and released in a large enclosure prior to rewilding. See their fb or blog for more details.
The same blog talks of sending Red River Hogs from the parks in the future to be mixed with a wild population- it doesn't say if this means part, or all, of their captive stock of this species.
The same blog talks of sending Red River Hogs from the parks in the future to be mixed with a wild population- it doesn't say if this means part, or all, of their captive stock of this species.
Title of this thread is PL 2019, not 2020, so in the correct place?